Originally named in memory of Lady Powerscourt, one of the 'Chief Women among the Brethren,' this is simply a place for me to collect stray thoughts about the Bible, women, the Brethren, Bible translation, manuscripts, writing systems, movies, books....

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Children of Divorce

CBMW has published commentary on an article that they do not link to. Sigh. This is their general pattern. Here is the study and on page 37 it states,

Amato and Keith (1991) summarised the results of over 90 studies and showed that children with divorced parents “on average” are worse off than those with continuously married parents. These children tend to have less academic success, they exhibit more conduct problems, are more likely to suffer depression and distress, have lower self esteem, tend to have fewer friends and less social support from their peers and also have weaker emotional bonds with their mothers and fathers

4 comments:

don't have time to pull the research, but the one time children do better after a divorce is when it is a highly conflictual marriage/abusive marriage. What this report does not say is that children who grow up in homes where they witness violence are 348% more likely to become abusive towards their partners. Always frustrating when people pull what they want from reearch and neglect the rest.